Johann Jacob Jacobi married Anna Maria Stauch, and they had six known children, each baptized in the Evangelical Church of Neunstetten, 30 kilometers east of Heilbronn: (1) Hans Michael, on 17 October 1748; (2) Hans (Johann) Wilhelm, on 17 February 1751; (3) Johann Jacob, on 3 February 1755; (4) Johann Valentin, on 28 January 1757; (5) Georg Philipp, on 26 October 1759; and (6) Friedrich Eberhard, on 15 May 1763.
Johann Jacob Jacobi, a cobbler, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 18; Wilhelm, age 16¼; Johann Jakob, age 10½; Valening, age 9; Georg Philipp, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Johann Jacob Jacobi, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Michael, age 19; Johann Wilhelm, age 17; Jakob, age 13; Johann Valentin, age 10; Johann Georg Philipp, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 75. They had arrived in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
On the 1798 Census of Dönhof sons Johann Wilhelm, Johann Jakob & Johann Valentin are recorded there in Households No. Dh063, Dh074 & Dh079, respectively.
The widow Philipp Jacobi and his children are recorded on the 1798 census in Frank in Household No. Fk064.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Jakoby came from the German region of Löwenstein.
This surname has been spelled at various times as Jacobi, Jacoby, Jacobÿ, Jakobi, Jakoby, and Jakobÿ.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 267.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dh063, Dh074, Dh079, Fk064.
- Parish register of Neustetten (LDS Film No. 1272771).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 361.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1924.
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